I’m anxious
Daniel Weaver June 10, 2013 22:10

Detecting Ghostery

window.addEventListener("DOMSubtreeModified", function(e) {
if (e.target.id.search(/^(ghostery-alert-[0-9]+|ghostery-purple-bubble)$/) == 0)
e.target.innerHTML = 'All your bubbles are belong to us';
}, false);
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    Alexei June 10, 2013 22:39
    Hi Daniel,

    Tampering with the alert bubble does not and cannot change what Ghostery's button badge and findings panel report.

    If you are concerned about Ghostery being detected: Any extension that modifies pages is vulnerable to detection. We can make detection harder, but we can't eliminate it, not without disabling Ghostery's blocking capabilities. For example, a page could see if certain commonly-blocked elements are no longer present.

    We plan on making the alert bubble harder to detect in the future.
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    good solution! good solution! (undo)
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